This is good for Tourism? Inflation in Aruba at Historic Levels … “Aruba is also Becoming too Expensive”

“Aruba is also becoming too expensive.”

It appears that Aruba is handling their inflation as well as they handled the Natalee Holloway investigation.

Are the tourism powers that be in Aruba going to sit back and tell us this is good for their tourism and that its flourishing? Maybe some one would like to inform tourism and government officials of simple economics. Aruba is experiencing double digit inflation. Who who be their next Prime Minister, Jimmy Carter?

Why would a traveler want to go some where that is more expensive than comparable locations? Thus, the only incentive that Aruba tourism has is to lower their prices. Thus, when they say they have an increase in tourism is it really a financial increase? When you increase tourism by 8% but have to slash your prices by 30%, is there really a profit?

From the figures of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) it appears that the inflation in 2007 has reached a historic record of 10.2 percent in December; was 8.6 percent in November. 

“The 6-percent difference between the 4.2 percent inflation of our most important business-partner the United States and the unprecedented high inflation of 10.2 percent of Aruba shows that the bbo has drastically influenced the price increase in Aruba.”

Inflation reaches historic record, (Amigoe, January 23, 2008)

ORANJESTAD – From the figures of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) it appears that the inflation in 2007 has reached a historic record of 10.2 percent in December; was 8.6 percent in November.   

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Aruba: One Alcohol Intoxicated Island … Should Bars be Responsible for Over Serving?

Does Aruba have a right to complain about the over consumption of alcohol when they do nothing to regulate the serving to minors or the quantity in its bars and clubs?

Does Aruba have a culture of over consumption of alcohol? We are constantly told by the “pro-Aruba” media that it is the tourists fault for their over consumption of alcohol. However, how does that explain its own citizens? The recent  article in Amigo expands on this very issue as there was a rash of individuals needing medical attention at Horacio Oduber Hospital.

The personnel of Horacio Oduber Hospital was very busy from December 21 to 26.  The reason was mostly consumption of too much alcohol.  At least 28 victims of traffic accidents were brought in, versus 12 last year. 

Why does Aruba promote the over-consumption of alcohol when it makes them a profit and then complains and blames the victim and makes accusatory comments like Gerald Dompig did against Natalee Holloway when that over-indulgence causes crime?

Why does Aruba not make its drinking establishments responsible for the amount of alcohol it serves like HERE, HERE or HERE? Let alone what may be slipped into someone’s drink unexpectedly. Do bars in Aruba care whether they serve people under age? In another much publicized case in America, the rape and murder of Imette St. Guillen, The Falls bar lost its liquor license and was closed down after under age sales and after hours violations, due to the clamor arising from a crime that occurred.

The closing may have been accelerated by the murder case but the bar was ultimately shuttered under a Police Department nuisance abatement action. The court order cited the bar for three instances of selling alcohol to a minor and one charge of selling alcohol after hours since the start of the year.

So why does Aruba continue to promote the excesses of alcohol in their drinking establishments and provide no criminal consequences when crimes occur? The answer is money is more important than health and safety.

In Aruba its not About the decrease in Tourism, but the Increase in Drugs

Rush hour in hospital

ORANJESTAD – The personnel of Horacio Oduber Hospital was very busy from December 21 to 26.  The reason was mostly consumption of too much alcohol.  At least 28 victims of traffic accidents were brought in, versus 12 last year. 

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Aruban Officials … Gutless and Corrupt Cowards to the End … Refuse to Prosecute Crimes in Aruba

One Gutless Island …

There is gutless, there is cowardice and then there is corrupt. In some special cases we get all three … Welcome to the “Perfect Storm” of anti-investigation and prosecution of the Natalee Holloway case, known as Aruba.

If you are an Aruban today, you should be ashamed and embarrassed. You should also be up in arms as your island that depends on tourism just took another hit. No one in their right mind would travel to a place where suspects get out of jail and off murder wrap free cards are handed out on a who you know basis. Tourists obviously have no legal or judicial recourse for crimes committed against them in Aruba.

Of course one wonders how could one prosecute a “a violent crime or culpable homicide,” if the fix was in from the outset by investigators refusing to investigate. We go back to those initial comments by Paul Van der Sloot, “if there is no body, there is no crime”. Isn’t it amazing that the Aruban prosecutor referenced those similar words. Isn’t it more amazing that Paul Van der Sloot made the comment in the first place. The answer to any thinking person is … because he knew they never would.

The fact that the body of the missing teenager was never found is for the OM ‘an important shortage’ in the possible reconstruction of what had exactly happened.  “Because of that, the current dossier cannot give sufficient answer on the question which punishable facts took place in the night of Holloway’s disappearance, nor can it answer the question what the exact role of the suspects was in this”

What kind of BS is this!!! You people had all the evidence right in front of you and you refused to take action. Oh that’s right … you arrested two black security guards in an effort to railroad them for the crime against Natalee Holloway. What a convenient excuse that there is no body. Hmm … just like Paul Van der Sloot mentioned … hmmm. So what happens if Texas EquuSearch finds Natalee Holloway’s body? What excuse will you have then to not prosecute the three people who were last seen with Natalee before she disappeared forever.

Suspects Holloway not prosecuted – AMIGOE

One of the last pictures of Natalee Holloway and the three other ‘central figures’ Satish and Deepak Kalpoe and Joran van der Sloot taken in Aruba.

ORANJESTAD – The Public Prosecutor (OM) decided not to prosecute the three suspects in the Holloway-case.  The dossier does not have enough evidence for a violent crime or culpable homicide.  Also the burden of proof for possible legal evidence is not sufficient, concluded the OM.

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Aruba Does the Unthinkable … Aruban Prosecutor Closes Natalee Holloway Case … Criminal, Simply Criminal

Aruba commits the ultimate crime and closes the Natalee Holloway case. Despicable, simple despicable. Memo to the ALE and Aruban prosecutors office, please do not even pretend that you went the extra mile in this case. All you accomplished was to successfully show that your island is corrupt and you place no value on human life.

Let this be a loud and clear message to all potential vacationers … Aruba does not care what happens to you when you travel to their island. Stalking, praying upon tourists, date rape drugs, assault, and murder are all inconsequential actions when it comes to prosecuting crimes in Aruba. All they care about is protecting their own and you spending your money.

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Prosecutors closed their investigation into the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, saying Tuesday they still believe three young men were involved in her death but can’t prove it after 932 days of searching failed to turn up a body.

The three main suspects in the case were re-arrested last month after prosecutors in Aruba discovered online chat sessions they hoped would break the case open. But none of the men talked in custody, and without the 18-year-old’s body, prosecutors said they had no recourse but to close the most notorious missing persons case in the Caribbean.

If the three suspects were put on trial, the lack of evidence “would lead to an acquittal,” the Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

UPDATE I: Fox reporting Aruba Investigation Into Disappearance of American Teen Natalee Holloway Is Not Over

Well like most things that have come out of Aruba in the Natalee Holloway case … who knows what the truth is? I guess this is a translation issue as well. More like the fact that no one seems to be able to tell the truth. Aruban prosecutor Hans Mos is supposed to have a press conference Thursday.

ORANJESTAD, Aruba  —  Aruban officials have not closed their investigation into the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, FOX News learned Tuesday.

The media liason for the public prosecutor in Aruba dismissed an earlier report that the investigation was over. A press conference scheduled for Thursday will reveal new evidence against three young men last seen with the Alabama teen.

The investigation is in a new phase with detectives reviewing new evidence, the media liason told FOX News.

 

Aruba was Warned about Dependence on Tourism … How About a Dependence Upon Cronyism?

Maybe they should have warned Aruba about a heavy dependence on cronyism and cover ups of missing person investigations that would provide negative that PR that no tourism marketing campaign could combat.

Maybe they should have warned Aruba against defending the indefensible. Because what is good for the three suspects who were last seen with Natalee Holloway, who has never been seen nor heard from since that encounter, is terrible for Aruba and its tourism.

Aruba Warned against Heavy Dependence on Tourism